Video: America needs jobs, not speeches

posted at 5:30 pm on September 7, 2011 by Tina Korbe

As Ed pointed out earlier, House Speaker John Boehner has played the president’s jobs speech well. Originally, when the president requested to speak before tonight’s debate, Ed and I said on TEMS that the president made a strategic error, essentially offering the GOP candidates the opportunity to rebut his speech for an entire hour and a half. I wondered why Boehner wanted to undo that opportunity by forcing Obama to address Congress tomorrow night, instead. But it’s all become pretty clear: Boehner has managed to make the president’s speech — what the White House has hyped as an address of great importance — appear insignificant. And, in fact, however stellar the sentiments the president expresses, however novel the ideas he espouses, his speech will still just be a speech. The below video from Sen. Jim DeMint’s office nicely summarizes the dismal economic information and broken promises from Democrats that underscore the simple, but ever salient point, that America needs jobs, not speeches.

What was What’s-her-name trying to say anyway? Did that make ANY sense… other than… you know, trying to say the Republicans are responsible for everything bad that happens in a jumble of words that made NO SENSE!

It’s unverifiable spin that things would have gotten even worse and continued to get worse if not for the Recovery Act. Unfortunately for Debbie Downer, to sell the Recovery Act they made projections about what would happen without it, and the unemployment numbers blew through those projections. So either the Recovery Act is a failure or their projections were wildly inaccurate. Either way, why would you believe their projections of what is going to happen next?

“..we’re putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done.”

–Obama (clip above)

First of all, who’s we? Secondly, if these words — spoken by Obama — damn Obama for what he is: a failed echo of FDR. Americans do not want to merely be “put to work”. We don’t want a handout, some CCC-like road crew chain-gain soup kitchen Tom Joad depression-era shittheel survival crapola like that.

We want to invent, create, construct, build, prosper. To extend the movie metaphor, compare and contrast Henry Fonda in Grapes of Wrath versus Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead.

He has N.F.C.; just get you and your administration and union thugs out of our way and let us do what Americans do best: thrive.

“This was the moment when the rise of unemployment began and our jobs began to go overseas. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this nation so that it may always reflect our very worse selves and our socialist ideals. Damn you, God damn you, and may God damn the United States of America.”

Right now, if the Republican’s need a face for the Obama “job program” I volunteer, no matter how embarassing it is personally.

I sit here in a McDonald’s, taking a break from a job search, knowing I will lie awake tonight in my tent wishing someone would show my video to Obama and make him answer “why are Tom Bryant’s children sleeping in a tent.”

No matter how rotten my day was, a few seconds of Debbie and I feel fine.

Who needs Comedy Central?

BobMbx on September 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM

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Is it possible that she is getting more stupid by the day? Listening to her lie in random patterns of disjointed sentences is all but impossible. She can’t have always sounded this moronic… Could she?
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